Say Hello To DBooks: A Book Publishing Platform On STEEM - Publish Your Books And Earn.

donutboy (55) · 7 years ago

this is incredible!
I am in awe at all the revolutionary publication platforms being built on the Steem blockchain.
great work!!!

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thedreamflow (45) · 7 years ago

Yeah, this is exciting! How will payouts work? Are they going to be Steem transfers? I still don't understand why the Steem platform is restricting the payout schedule to 7 days, it seems like quality content would gradually pick up votes and therefore rise to the top if the payouts weren't only within a week. I don't know about anyone else, but I don't vote for posts older than 7 days because I don't want to waste my voting power...

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donutboy (55) · 7 years ago (edited)

that's a lot of questions. if you vote for someone after 7 days, you help their reputation without effecting your voting power.

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cryptostyle (50) · 7 years ago

You are hundred percent right @donutboy
I think In this way We can Make them Happy without effecting Our voting power And its More useful for minnows to help them with Upvote.
My SP is very Low but I want to Upvote my dear friends.My Upvote do not make a profit for them but I think it Shows my Love for them.

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donutboy (55) · 7 years ago

upvote yourself too, tell your friends to do the same. your SP will grow overtime.

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cryptostyle (50) · 7 years ago

How?
My SP is very low and my upvote will not make any impact on my Sp.
How it can grow with my Own Upvote?

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donutboy (55) · 7 years ago (edited)

it will over time. you can do it, you're just thinking too much.

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cryptostyle (50) · 7 years ago

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thedreamflow (45) · 7 years ago

Yeah, I misspoke about the voting power... but I still think it would be useful to extend the voting payouts to give truly quality content the possibility of rising to the top over time. Right now trending pages are dominated by those who have mastered the voting bot game, and those posts wouldn't attract consistent votes over time.

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introvertspeaks (51) · 7 years ago

And I am very excited to read your first book about donuts!

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donutboy (55) · 7 years ago

thank you! it'll be a dream come true to have it out there. :]

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ponydeath (41) · 7 years ago

hahaahha amazing! XD

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donutboy (55) · 7 years ago

what is funny and amazing?

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ezimedia (36) · 7 years ago

Very cool to see more sites like your being build on the steem platform... is there a place that has a list of all the sites currently out there that have been built on the steem platform.. I would love to check them all out.. upvoted and resteemed.. good job.

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donutboy (55) · 7 years ago

these are the ones I know of so far:

@zappl
@esteemapp
@dmania
@dsound
@utopian-io
@dtube
@dlive
@busy.org

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dimagogroup (0) · 7 years ago

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sabiondico (44) · 7 years ago

and me?

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donutboy (55) · 7 years ago

take care of the we, and the me will follow.

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hiroyamagishi (68) · 7 years ago

Interesting project. Has already a working MVP(minimum viable product) thanks for creating this that can attract more and more people to study blockchain

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timoshey (59) · 7 years ago

A book suggestion 'A-Z of blockchain'. :)
It's our pleasure

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muhdyanis (39) · 7 years ago

Nice

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connorsmith (41) · 7 years ago

Yes, a very great use case. It is great to see more and more decentralization applications!

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danvillani (56) · 7 years ago

Great idea! I can't wait to start writing my first book!

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feekayo (58) · 7 years ago

Yaaay! We'll be looking forward to it

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https://steemit.com/steemit/@zidijutt/what-is-steem-steem-and-its-predictions-for-2018

zidijutt (31) · 7 years ago

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dimagogroup (0) · 7 years ago

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spaminator (68) · 7 years ago

Leaving comments asking for votes, follows, or other self promotional messages could be seen as spam.

Thank You! ⚜

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atmosblack (63) · 7 years ago

This is simply awesome and comes at the perfect time! A friend is pushing me into writing a book for some time and she was just yesterday telling me, that I should make a book out of my Steemit posts! I will definitely look into your service. The one thing that worries me though is, that without a picture, the published chapter/book will not attract many readers when viewed on Steemit? Thanks @timoshey!

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shlw (42) · 7 years ago

I also will get a chance to write a book soon.

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https://steemit.com/fiction/@poias/a-place-you-stay-forever-chapter-5-keeping-up-appearances

poias (46) · 7 years ago

Let's co-write a book for Dbooks on Steemit .I've wrote the first 5 chapter you write the next 5 .

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doctalk (55) · 7 years ago

Absolutely brilliant . The more time i spend in steemit the more i find value beyond speculation . Books , knowledge these are time resistant value for all ages . Bring more on.

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lextenebris (62) · 7 years ago

I have two questions which concern me out of the gate:

Firstly, how do you intend to overcome the "can only be rewarded for seven days" problem when it comes to books? Is the assumption that content will be episodic in the sense of old-school pulp novels which were published serially? If not, then it definitely begs the question of how will books be rewarded after any content in them has been posted for seven days?
Secondly, in the backend, is it just interpreting Markdown for presentation? Is there any chance that we can get Fountain added as an option for those of us who don't necessarily write prose but screenplay format instead, and still want attractive output formatting?

Of the two questions, the first is obviously much larger and important..

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practicalthought (65) · 7 years ago

As a writer/self publisher, I would also caution against putting real books on here. All of the bookstores (Kindle/Apple/Nook, etc) frown on books being available anywhere off their bookstore cheaper than it is on theirs. This would not be something anyone looking to make residuals long term with their writing would participate in if I am understanding this correctly. Amazon has crawlers scouring the net constantly looking for books on their platform listed elsewhere cheaper.

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lextenebris (62) · 7 years ago

Even if you intend to demand that you retain distribution rights (which are in your control before you ascribe them to anyone else), the long-term reward architecture is something you absolutely need to be aware of before you decide to put anything on a public blockchain. Unlike most distribution mechanisms, you have no control over the presence or absence of it at any point going forward.

As long as one node exists of the blockchain, your work is forever immortalized and you cannot revoke it.

For most authors at this point, publishing directly to Amazon is probably, overall, a better outlet. At least for pretty much any form of non-serialized fiction. While serialized neo-pulp stories do see publication through Amazon, it can be very difficult to maintain public interest for such content because Amazon really doesn't have the architecture to maintain communities.

Though, honestly, given the questions about how long-term rewards can possibly be apportioned, you might be better off – as a new, unsigned writer who is looking to be published – self-publishing your work through Amazon (which is terribly easy, truthfully) and building your community wherever it is that you can find a following.

If that happens to be on Steemit, awesome. If it's anywhere else, you might want to look into something like Flattr, which doesn't have quite the complex management issue of Steemit, or going truly aggressively into Patreon.

Being an untested writer is a hard row to hoe, and honestly unless you feel absolutely compelled to be a writer to the exclusion of doing things far more sensible, I can't really suggest it. I'm not sure that there are any public blockchain architectures that would really work well with book publishing because of the issue of complete lack of ongoing control over the content once it's been posted.

For new folks, this might not seem like a big deal. Maybe it's not. But it will be one day if you're successful.

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feekayo (58) · 7 years ago

We have a feature in the pipeline called book locking... Which means that once you're done publishing your book on dbooks you can lock your book from public viewing. Then people would have to pay a rental fee set by the writer to access said content.

Of course the content would still be available for free on steemit but would lack the organization and ease of read we offer

We would really love to have you on our discord group, so we can discuss new features at length

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lextenebris (62) · 7 years ago

You do know that nobody wants to rent books, right? This is a publication methodology that has been tried before – and ultimately just ends up encouraging people to find ways to transfer what is purely text content into a more distributable, useful format.

In fact, for anyone that cares, DRM might as well not even exist right now.

If there's one thing that we've learned about book publication (and if we're honest, any form of media), it's that if it is possible to acquire something more conveniently than piracy for a few dollars, people will do it – but DRM puts a speed bump there, making piracy far more attractive.

If the content is still available for free on Steemit, then that's definitely not going to be a great thing.

And you conveniently skated to the side to avoid my question about how books will be rewarded after the seven day Steemit posting. Instead, you've brought up a new question:

If I'm going to have to maintain different publishing formats in order to provide structure to the dbooks system, why shouldn't I post directly to Amazon or Google Books directly, given that it's relatively easy to do so and both of them will pay me in real money?

You've decided to take on two methods of distribution simultaneously, both of which seem to have fairly inherently superior advantages. PDFs and e-books are easy to generate from content, especially content already largely marked up with Markdown. Steemit already provides voting rewards without giving up a 20% cut to you guys, just from straight posting. What are you offering that is better than the current options in self publication for longform content?

I think I'd rather have this discussion here than Discord, where other people who may be interested can see it in context and it is nowhere near as ephemeral.

These are the questions that serious writers need the answers to.

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feekayo (58) · 7 years ago (edited)

Okay..

I really love your points raised. A second option that has been discussed is making the 20% we get from posts serve as a monthly reward pool which will be shared amongst writers based on the percentage of the overall total reads generated by their articles on the platform during the course said month.

That would be a better way to provide writers with long term sustainable income. We really appreciate your criticisms and I must assure you that most of these issues have crossed our minds

We're going to provide writers with as many options as possible to generate sustainable income and they can choose their own poisons

However, these are still early days for us and we would need all the help and funds (the initial purpose of the 20%) we can get to develop the product properly

We're taking things 1 step at a time.

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lextenebris (62) · 7 years ago

I really love your points raised. A second option that has been discussed is making the 20% we get from posts serve as a monthly reward pool which will be shared amongst writers based on the percentage of the overall total reads generated by their articles on the platform during the course said month.

After the first couple of months, this is going to be heavily weighted toward those with established presence on the platform and almost none of it is going to go to newcomers, and that's the way it's going to be until you shut down the project.

Now, that might be exactly what you want, but from the perspective of someone who is coming along later, they have almost no chance of competing in the midterm with those who already have an established presence. You are basically holding them in with the hope that they will be someone who is recognized as a creator within this niche in coming cycles.

You have effectively, philosophically, re-created "publish or perish" as well as a system which simultaneously rewards simply having been on the platform the longest. I am not sure that was entirely your intention.

Also, you immediately open yourself to be the target of some sort of distributed bot "reading" swarm, given that you are going to distribute that 20% by "reads." If I can buy up votes on the blockchain, I can most certainly buy "reads" for the same distribution mechanism.

It's hard to get away from the multilevel marketing whiff coming off of this. After all, let's consider the degenerate case in which no books are voted up for a month. There will be no 20% to take. It doesn't matter how established the writer is, they get nothing. Now let's consider the case where the number of people publishing books on the system triples, but the number of consumer and consumer-hours does not. In that period, each view becomes worth effectively 1/3 of what it was before. Unless the amount of the 20% taken can grow faster than the number of people who want to be involved in the system by a good amount, it becomes more advantageous for those already in to keep people out in order to protect their rewards.

You've just reimplemented a reward pool that mimics the same failure modes as the Steemit reward pool. It just keys often easier mechanism to automate.

However, these are still early days for us and we would need all the help and funds (the initial purpose of the 20%) we can get to develop the product properly

Unfortunately, you need to do more than minimum viable product to have a successful rollout. You have to have a system built in theory which actually does what you say you want it to do. It needs to be resistant to exploitation by automation, because we already know that sort of exploitation exists on the platform we've got. It needs to not set up mechanics which actively incentivize bad actor behavior. It needs to decide what it wants to do before you start implementing anything.

I realize that the "don't think, go fast, fail fast" process is popular in Silicon Valley circles, but I've always been fond of replacing that whole architecture with "don't fail."

For me, as a writer who is already published, I need some kind of understanding of the theoretical underpinning of how it's all supposed to work devoid of handwaving, and which reflects a fair amount of consideration about my experience as a user, to be the kind of person that gets on board this sort of thing.

I may not be the kind of user you're targeting. You may be looking for the people who are just looking for a lighter weight, less promising vanity press. Which is fine, as far as it goes, but if so you probably need to really lean heavily on what advantages your system will provide over what already exists on Amazon and Google Books – and if you can't answer those questions, find some answers to them.

There are a lot of ways for independent authors to self publish these days, ones in which they retain most of the rights of distribution going forward after publication. You have to compete with those.

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sakujo (39) · 7 years ago (edited)

I think the 20% distribution is actually a valid strategy. It doesn't have to be based on views.. could be based on likes too. It would be the same thing as Steem extending the voting rewards from 7 days to like a year we'll say. The only difference is that it's capped at rewarding only 20% and not the full portion of money.

Besides Steemit, DTube seems to be the most popular steem-based app right now. But with your argument, they too fall to the demise of the 7 day cap. Great video content takes as much effort to produce as anything else.

I think the real issue is with Steem. Steem misses out on a lot of use-cases by limiting us with a 7 day reward pool. One solution would be, when they release the ability for people to create their own tokens, to also be able to choose a time limit for rewards.

With that said, I agree with what you say, and I think DBooks suffers this problem at a much greater length. Also, the design of the MVP is very weak (a bookshelf as the background???).

I will say that fundamentally, the idea of DBooks is pretty interesting. If we were to imagine the centralized version of it, it would be like Scribd.

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feekayo (58) · 7 years ago (edited)

Thanks for your insights. You've raised very cogent points which we will seriously consider and discuss at length to better improve our business model

Thank you very much

We're really committed to this project and would love it to be fair, just & self sustaining for as long as possible

We really appreciate these criticisms and we would take them as constructive.

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timoshey (59) · 7 years ago

You've made very valid points. We are going to re-strategize and come up with answers to these honest concerns of yours and I'm sure others will share the same.
If the reward pool system based on views seems flawed, what do you think about a voting system like what we have in steem witnesses?
You've shared your concerns, we've listened. Now we would love to listen to suggestions if you have any. I truly appreciate your inputs, it just goes to show you care and you're passionate about what you love.

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feekayo (58) · 7 years ago

About the Publishing formats.

I hope you understand that this is a Minimum Viable Product. It might take up to a month, if not more to get to the Beta stage

And most of our workflow and methods would probably evolve over time.

Currently, nothing is set in stone. Our work has only just begun

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kipswolfe (49) · 7 years ago

"Minimum Viable Product" does nothing to make my author's ears perk up. You might review what @lextenebris has talked about. I'd say "discussed" but your only contribution to this has been what is essentially hand-waving.

If you would like authors to really look at your product, you should have more than a bare skeleton of what you're going to do.

lextenebris (62) · 7 years ago

I suspect that those aspiring to Silicon Valley-style development arcs may have an entirely different idea of what "viable" means than people who actually have to use products.

Out here, "viable" means that something actually has to work. It has to be fit for purpose.

This may be asking too much.

timoshey (59) · 7 years ago

@lextenebris has helped us a lot to see things from a different angle. I don't subscribe to the school of thought that says one has to have an answer to every question raised. I feel it is ok at some point to press the pause button and further research the subject matter, then come back with an appropriate response.
We would work on the idea and bring out a product with more flesh on it. Your suggestions are also welcome.

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reidlist (56) · 7 years ago (edited)

Yeah there are big problems here. It's going to be people writing the same garbage posts that are insular steemit issues, publishing them as a book, and raking in whatever incentives are given for views by offering it for free instead of renting it out.

Just like short books on Amazon have been pushed to $.99, people will offer Dbooks for free, and renting will be a dinosaur as soon as its born. No one will write a real book exclusively for this platform, they will write "Trending" tripe in serial form and publish it.

This blockchain was built for social media. High turnover content. It's not made for residuals, and I think books would be forced.

I think energy would be far better spent building a marketplace to sell books for Steem or maybe even Delegations. That's the end goal, right? Selling books for Steem/SBD/SteemPower. That's what this is, so do it directly. Have a marketplace where someone can send a pre-determined amount and a memo to an account in return for a unique download/access code for the book. Automate the transaction with SteemConnect.

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lextenebris (62) · 7 years ago

Of course, that's just a specific instance of the more general problem of "we need a proper storefront interface for doing business using steem/SDB as a currency," which is a problem that you would've thought the developers at Steemit Inc. would have wanted to get out the door on about day five, since the idea of a currency that no one takes in exchange for anything is a little silly.

The problem with selling any kind of media these days is proceeding under the assumption that it can't/won't be immediately pirated, and for good reasons.

I would love to have some kind of solution which would reward people for writing evergreen content; there is entirely too much focus on creating for the ephemeral and ignoring the idea that you might want to produce something that is useful and rewarded outside of an extremely narrow time slice. But you can't do that with the steem blockchain. There's no advantage to doing so and no system by which it would be worthwhile to do so.

I suspect that if there is a desire for curated, serialized fiction or nonfiction in a blockchain context, that particular itch will be scratched when hardfork 20 comes out with communities, which themselves can be run like a curated publication, accept submissions, only re-steem/publish the pieces that they decide are worthwhile, and get their money from the curation of a specific type of content while the authors get their money from the up votes. It means that authors can't get rewarded after a week, even if a new reader discovers them, unless they're constantly producing content, which is going to be self-limiting in a number of ways – but odds are it will work better than what we see on the table here.

I'm just trying to find a use case that works for DBooks and I'm just not finding it.

riodejaksiuroe (58) · 7 years ago

yea. maybe we need editors for this kind of books

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empowermite (54) · 7 years ago

Yes, you hit it, an online bookstore built on blockchain, where authors make money showcasing and advertising their books though upvote and at the same time sell the book for interested parties

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furn01 (55) · 7 years ago

Congratulations on creating what looks an incredible product.

Will definitely use this once I have a few more posts under my belt.

Resteemed this to help make more people aware of this.

Good luck :-)

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timoshey (59) · 7 years ago

We look forward to having you. Give us a feedback on your experience.

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sisygoboom (64) · 7 years ago (edited)

This is exactly what the writing community needed! I'm ecstatic and can't wait to use this!

Can we add chapters after the book has been published?

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timoshey (59) · 7 years ago

After you might have locked up a book, you can't add chapters anymore. But you can add as many chapters before locking it up.

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decomoescribir (52) · 7 years ago

This is simple amazing, wish you guys the best of success.

Ill get soon and see if i publish my book... its spanish... do you support other lengauges?
D.

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timoshey (59) · 7 years ago

We do support other languages

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decomoescribir (52) · 7 years ago

Awesome... if you guys need help, let me know...

I have a community of writers in Spanish and a platform gathering this audience. Maybe we can work to expand this AMAZING idea into this inmense niche ;)

And create some buzz...
D.

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kex (55) · 7 years ago

Can I write a poetry book?

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gomovies (46) · 7 years ago

Thats a very good idea!

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https://steemit.com/steemit/@zidijutt/what-is-steem-steem-and-its-predictions-for-2018

zidijutt (31) · 7 years ago

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street.yoga (55) · 7 years ago

Pictures are currently not allowed to be attached to articles as we currently want to focus on intense and serious writing first and foremost

There goes my idea to create a serious cookbook then :) Looking forward to the future and love the idea, so many good articles burried in the blockchain after one week and the motivation to put more effort in than into a weekly newspaper was not very high.
But with the possibility to write in chapters and get recognition even after one week, the quality will get up for sure. Thank you @feekayo and @timoshey!

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timoshey (59) · 7 years ago

Thank you too. Another request for the picture feature. We just might consider including it. :)

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allyinspirit (63) · 7 years ago

As a visual artist I'm also interested in self-publishing art books. Love the idea of producing books based on my Steemit articles. Also feel that @lextenebris has some valid points related to the short term rewards for the efforts it would take to produce a book. 🦋

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joeyt2k (25) · 7 years ago

Great idea. I do think photos would be a useful feature to add, especially considering how many photographers and poets seem to use the platform. For I example, I have a completed book I was thinking about sharing on Steem in a digest form, but it's a biography with high-quality film and fashion photos, the book just wouldn't make sense without them. Very interesting project though, I look forward to following its progress.

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allyinspirit (63) · 7 years ago

Agree. I've been looking at the idea of self-publishing art books based on the images and their descriptions I've shared here at Steemit. Would be wonderful to do something similar with Dbooks. 🦋

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peterecheng (52) · 7 years ago

Wow, this a great project that would add value to steem blockchain. This idea is highly welcome. I would start preparing myself to explore Dbook soon. Nice job guys

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timoshey (59) · 7 years ago

Thank you. We will appreciate that.

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vox00 (42) · 7 years ago

wow great :)
It just endless source of possibilities
Absolutely amazing

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timoshey (59) · 7 years ago

"Just when we thought we were out, they pulled us back in." The blockchain keeps giving us reasons to be excited

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ogochukwu (68) · 7 years ago

Hello @timoshey

This a very amazing concept. I am a book lover myself and I see the beauty of this project.

I will join the Discord now as I have some ideas to share.

Resteemed

@ogochukwu

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timoshey (59) · 7 years ago

Thank you @ogochukwu I'm aware of your love for books, thanks for the support. Will chat you up on those ideas.

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jameszenartist (62) · 7 years ago

What an insanely good idea! I'm surprised this wasn't thought of earlier :)

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rainbowme (54) · 7 years ago

This reminds me of https://www.wattpad.com.

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kipswolfe (49) · 7 years ago

And you don't have to worry about the upvote/income lockout after 7 days.

Developers, this might be something to look at as inspiration.

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hattaarshavin (74) · 7 years ago

Admin Creat group discord

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timoshey (59) · 7 years ago

The post has been edited to include the discord link.

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hattaarshavin (74) · 7 years ago

thank you for responding to my comments @timoshey

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dsatria (58) · 7 years ago

I welcome the presence of dbooks because Steemit users have an alternative fill out the content. I really support the dbook creative idea. Hopefully I can participate.

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timoshey (59) · 7 years ago

Thanks for your support. We look forward to having you.

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taskmaster4450 (78) · 7 years ago

This is an excellent application. Thanks for the writeup. I will certainly spread the word as much as I can. I love to see the development taking place on this platform.

Is this only for fiction books or do you want non-fiction in there?

Also, just so I know, is NSFW also allowed? Trashy romance novels seem to be big lol.

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feekayo (58) · 7 years ago

We support numerous types of books. Both Fiction and Non-Fiction. Haha.. NSFW? Haha... Bring 'em on

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taskmaster4450 (78) · 7 years ago

Good deal I will pass this along wherever I can.

It is a great idea...thanks for the post...I will do a writeup....

I will also add a series that I posted a while back....

Great idea.

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timoshey (59) · 7 years ago

Thanks for the writeup and for spreading the word. You're appreciated

pradhan222 (48) · 7 years ago

This is another good step for all.I want to work on Dbooks.

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hawaiian-shirt (25) · 7 years ago (edited)

Can I write a stories in my native language?

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feekayo (58) · 7 years ago

Definitely... We would be adding a Language Filter soon.

I have already seen some of your published work. Hope you had a nice time using the app

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demalit (25) · 7 years ago

God bless you!

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travelalert (49) · 7 years ago

Revolutionary!

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elisea (50) · 7 years ago

This is a great idea! Thank you. I've been going around in circles trying to decide where to publish my stories and now I have the solution: Dbooks! ❤❤❤

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feekayo (58) · 7 years ago

Hehehe. Welcome!

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lyee (45) · 7 years ago

excellent idea! hope you have success!

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amigoponc (54) · 7 years ago

Good information, I start to write my first book.

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feekayo (58) · 7 years ago

We'll be looking forward to that

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universalmodels (25) · 7 years ago

This is BIG 🤓

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timoshey (59) · 7 years ago

We believe it will be.

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matty84 (25) · 7 years ago

I Love it ;)

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stephmckenzie (62) · 7 years ago

This sounds super cool. I wish I'd known about it sooner. Currently, I have three novels published on Amazon, and I JUST got done posting another novel to Steemit (a chapter a day, with a 50-chapter, 104,000 word novel). I wanted to compare the Amazon and Steemit publishing experiences. If I'd known about this, I would have used it for my Steemit novel.

I've got a fifth novel in progress, but I'm only about a quarter of the way done with writing it, and then it will need a few rounds of editing.

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feekayo (58) · 7 years ago

Well... You could publish it chapter by chapter at your own pace 😁

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limitlessfash (37) · 7 years ago

Amazing? No

Awesome? No

This is 'awe-mazing'

As a writer and published author, this is a welcome development and an excellent approach to help more writers to get out of their struggle of getting financial returns from their work.

Welldone guys @timoshey, hope to see more of the features that will be added.

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timoshey (59) · 7 years ago

Thanks for the kind words. We will keep the community updated on our future updates.

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baktiarsejahtera (34) · 7 years ago

Steady, nice and innovative your postings, I like to see, read and enjoy. Thanks for sharing.

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bobcastleman (37) · 7 years ago

Nice to see a project idea rather than another voting bot. You have an ambitious list of features. Good luck! Keep pushing that rock!

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timoshey (59) · 7 years ago

Hehehe, thank you. We intend to have our own voting bot in the future, but it will be strictly to reward authors on dbooks.org

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steevc (73) · 7 years ago

Yet another cool project being built on the steem platform. I know it can be tough for authors, so this is very welcome. Wishing you all the best with this.

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timoshey (59) · 7 years ago

Thanks man, we need all the best we can get.

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vesnapv (39) · 7 years ago (edited)

Congrats 🏆 on making an exciting and disruptive idea into something real!

Let's face it, we all came here following a promise to earn money as a reward for writing/posting.
DBooks application fits in perfectly 😍

Also, kudos on being smart and talking to senior Steemians, who already published a lot of useful&valuable content for us newby minnows. Makes sense to adress those with a lot of voting power to help boost DBooks in this stage.

I look forward to seeing @dbooks.org grow!

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timoshey (59) · 7 years ago

Thank you. We are working on bringing this project to the notice of those with lot of voting power as you said and hopefully, we could secure delegations to help boost our operations.

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muftii (59) · 7 years ago

seniors please stop by my blog, because I am new in steemit, the help of votes and comments from the senior I hope
https://steemit.com/@muftii/pusong-objek-wisata-aceh-barat-daya-54ad03169a3cc

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robertsrister (33) · 7 years ago

I would except I keep forgetting to do that. Just kidding. I'm following you now.

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rasel49 (2) · 7 years ago

I agree with a lot you had to say.

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katekor11 (38) · 7 years ago

Greetings the link does not load me, I do not know if it is in maintenance, I will try later, since I am interested in the project. I hope to find answers on the page about the minimum number of pages, language of the book, topics of interest, among others.

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timoshey (59) · 7 years ago

The links are now working fine. Please try it again

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katekor11 (38) · 7 years ago

If it is correct I can visualize, thank you very much

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feekayo (58) · 7 years ago

Yeah. Sorry about that. We're having some teenie issues with our hosting service provider... Please visit https://www.dbooks.org. Or rather open the link of firefox

This issue would be resolved soon

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katekor11 (38) · 7 years ago

Thanks, and I did not find writing criteria. Can I assume that the number of pages is indistinct, there is no minimum or maximum? And what should I follow the policies of steemit, in terms of plagiarism? Thank you very much and congratulations for this project, I will be there soon.

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iambitwolf (37) · 7 years ago

Great idea! This is exactly what is needed on the platform. Upvote,resteemed and I'm gonna follow you along this journey.

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timoshey (59) · 7 years ago

Thank you. You are appreciated

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feekayo (58) · 7 years ago

We hope to see you on the Discord group 😀

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bobmatou (35) · 7 years ago

Another feature that would be useful is to be able to sort books by genre such as science fiction, drama, romance, mystery, etc .

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timoshey (59) · 7 years ago

We have the categories section that can handle that for now. Thank you for your suggestion.

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kgakakillerg (76) · 7 years ago

This is a great project would add a whole lot of value the block chain great post buddy 🤟

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timoshey (59) · 7 years ago

Thank you for giving us your time.

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roger5120 (67) · 7 years ago

Wow! This is an excellent idea @timoshey I have no doubt that your #dbooks project will soon soar and rise to the top. Many here I see, I included, are truly excited on this. Thanks for sharing a wonderful idea. I'll #resteem and follow.

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timoshey (59) · 7 years ago

We strongly believe @dbooks.org will. Thanks for spreading the word

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roger5120 (67) · 7 years ago

Certainly. You're very welcome. Have a wonderful day.

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weirdheadaches (59) · 7 years ago

Wow! Highly Resteemed!

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binkyprod (67) · 6 years ago

What about books that are independently published either with a POD company or online. Can they be promoted here?

I post a lot on Steemit and I just published a book. But it's not available online. It either E-book or Print format.

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riovanes (66) · 7 years ago

Really nice! This app is perfect for writers. As an amateur writer myself I will definitely give this platform a try. Though, I mostly compose poems at the moment I also like reading and writing stories. Thanks for giving us a chance to thrive @timoshey and DBooks team. More success to you guys.

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feekayo (58) · 7 years ago

Thanks fam. Hehehe.. Its our pleasure

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zidijutt (31) · 7 years ago

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bencagri (54) · 7 years ago

Hello @timoshey
Seems a good project, wish you luck.

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feekayo (58) · 7 years ago

Thanks @bencagri. We hope to see you on dbooks soon

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ferreira.midia (30) · 7 years ago

Great great idea..
I am amazed by the steem project allowing to create all these possibilities!

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mountainjewel (68) · 7 years ago

so incredibly exciting! great execution of a fantastic vision!

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timoshey (59) · 7 years ago

Thank you. It has required much hard work, and we plan on working even harder.

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metzli (64) · 7 years ago

This is my favorite steemit project do far.

We NEED the picture feature. Imagine all those graphic novels and children’s books 📚 😍😍😍

Thank you.

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timoshey (59) · 7 years ago

Aww thank you.
That's a very good point, children books need to be colourful. We will work on that and hopefully it will be made available by the next update.

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feekayo (58) · 7 years ago

Hehehe

We have actually had an argument amongst ourselves on this. We'll leave it to the community to be the tie-breaker

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thecret (25) · 7 years ago

Alright, this sounds awesome, will it be availablefor google books store integration?

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feekayo (58) · 7 years ago

Eventually.. Probably

For now though we would be working on improving our core functionality

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thecret (25) · 7 years ago

Thanks for the reply!

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tpkidkai (58) · 7 years ago

Hey @timoshey thank you for this project. I do hope that it will be a success as some of the fiction writers are struggling to find their niche in the platform this will definitely give them a boost.

I do have a question though will it only cater the English market? I do write some stories but it is in our local language which is Filipino.

Thanks a lot!

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timoshey (59) · 7 years ago

We would introduce a multi-language option soon. We are still in alpha, so expect lots of developments on the site.

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feekayo (58) · 7 years ago

Bring them on. Every book has a niche. Implementing a Language filter has shot up our to-do list

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mongoosely (52) · 7 years ago

I'm interested. I've already written a book, Vengeance of a Jilted Dressmaker, and working on a sequel. Would I be able to publish my first with Dbook even though it's published on other websites, like Amazon, Smashwords, etc?

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feekayo (58) · 7 years ago (edited)

Definately! Bring all your books on

We provide the option of not publishing to the Steem Blockchain in case you're worried about getting flagged for plagarism

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mongoosely (52) · 7 years ago

That's great! I'm looking forward to the day.

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kuminga (48) · 7 years ago (edited)

That was rather an interesting prospect to begin with, I'll shall check it out right away!

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penningtonlens (39) · 7 years ago

Nice! Posting to return to this later.

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rasel49 (2) · 7 years ago

I agree with a lot you had to say.

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halyna (35) · 7 years ago

Sounds amazing! I've been thinking about self-publishing my books and just the thought of dealing with Amazon gives me a headache. Just this morning I've read that they're now flagging "bad" books and even books that have British spelling or illustrations that are facing sideways can be deemed as not worthy and taken down. For me as a non-native English speaker, this is close to a nightmare. I know that my book is probably not going to have perfect English in it no matter how many rounds of editing I go through. But it doesn't mean that I don't deserve to publish my books. After all, books are about storytelling and not spelling. This article has lifted a huge weight off my heart.

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feekayo (58) · 7 years ago (edited)

Thanks fam. Comments like these really warm my heart. This is exactly what we are going for. Total independence in book publishing. Let people create content and let people decide what content they prefer.

Also we would love to get to contact as many steem fiction writers as possible so as to help them better their rewards and visibility on Steemit.

I myself once published a fiction series on steemit and believe me. The experience wasn't encouraging.

We hope to see you on DBooks soon

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timoshey (59) · 7 years ago

I'm glad we are able to help. I agree everyone should be given the opportunity to publish. We would have a rating system where users can rate your books though we're yet to decide on flagging. The decision would be announce in our subsequent update.

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kipswolfe (49) · 7 years ago

If you hire an American English or a Bristish English editor, I'm sure they would be willing to work with you on your English.

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halyna (35) · 7 years ago

I hope to one day be able to afford it.

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bomaprecious (52) · 7 years ago

Now this is a place for people like myself.

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brightstar (64) · 7 years ago

Welcome to the future!

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feekayo (58) · 7 years ago

The Future is now 😁💪

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beautylove (5) · 7 years ago

good think

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alien35 (25) · 7 years ago

this looks awesome! I wish there was at least one example with content and votes.

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ahmedragab22 (27) · 7 years ago

steemit Excellent project

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steemingmark (55) · 7 years ago

Of course what a great idea I wish you the best!!! Good luck!!

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timoshey (59) · 7 years ago

Thanks man, we sure need it

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steemingmark (55) · 7 years ago

No problem hopefully you can get one or a few good authors to promote you and get you user base?

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harktheshark (46) · 7 years ago

Okay this might make steem pretty big. Awesome, can't wait till apps are available.

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timoshey (59) · 7 years ago

We will keep the community updated on our developments.

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dceroo (50) · 7 years ago

Great initiative!. Do you have an app planned for this or one needs to log into the site every time?

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feekayo (58) · 7 years ago

Errrm... We hope to develop an app in the coming months, these are our initial baby steps.

We'll keep you posted

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jnetsworld (58) · 7 years ago

This is exciting for writers at large to learn about the blockchain and crypto. This is also exciting for novice writers who look at publishing the traditional and current routes as intimidating. What a great project! Thx.

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timoshey (59) · 7 years ago

Thank you. The blockchain made all these possible.

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faizizamani (25) · 7 years ago

that's very long and lengthy but informative.

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timoshey (59) · 7 years ago

Thank you for sparing us your time

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aniketmore1925 (41) · 7 years ago

The idea is superb.
As many people post original content on steemit.
Why not post a whole book, which is full of original stuff :)

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timoshey (59) · 7 years ago

You get. That's the idea. Books are expected to be original contents. Hopefully we won't have to deal with plagiarized contents.

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robertsrister (33) · 7 years ago (edited)

As an author, my concern is my content will be plagiarized about as soon as it's published. I've had entire books I wrote scanned (it's usually somebody in Nepal, for some reason) and put on YouTube. I can get them taken down, but when Amazon detects the plagiarism, they delist my book--not as punishment, but because there are only so many pages a customer will click through on one visit to their site. Someone else steals, the author is penalized. Would dbook prevent this somehow?

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colburnk (25) · 7 years ago

This inspires me to reconnect with creative writing; a love long lost! Thank you for creating opportunities within the steemit community for nobodies like myself. Time to start writing my first book...

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timoshey (59) · 7 years ago

We are glad we could do that. Hopefully you don't forsake that love any longer

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maximumheight (29) · 7 years ago

This is a great innovation and contribution to the growth of ste emit. Innovation and ideas rules the world. With this, steemians can expand their works into writing of books. God bless you!!!!

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timoshey (59) · 7 years ago

Thank you, and bless you too

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hazmisyahputra (43) · 7 years ago

Nice post 👍

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nxtblg (62) · 7 years ago

Wonderful idea!

Quick question: does dBooks allow the chapters to be posted intermittently - ie, one chapter in the morning, one around noon, one in the evening?

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feekayo (58) · 7 years ago

Definitely, We hope to provide full flexibility. You can publish your content on your own terms

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timoshey (59) · 7 years ago

As you wish. Each individual chapter will serve as a single post. So the number of chapters you intend to write will determine the number of posts you will make. We will also introduce the feature that enables authors break a single chapter into two or many posts to avoid having a single long post for every chapter. So you could publish half of chapter one in the morning and complete the other half in the eveining on another post.

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nxtblg (62) · 7 years ago

Thanks.

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texrex (43) · 7 years ago

pink thank you GIF by Lisa Vertudaches-downsized_large.gif

I just had a brain fart this week about publishing my stories in serial like they did in the old days of newspaper.

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rohitgiri1 (25) · 7 years ago

Great blockchain project with MVP , I am interested

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alessiobottiroli (54) · 7 years ago

Wow this is really interesting!
The future is decentralised, that's for sure.

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kengtong (5) · 7 years ago

I can smell Ebooks is drowning

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feekayo (58) · 7 years ago

Hehehe

It's dbooks turn!! 😂😂

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charliefreak1 (47) · 7 years ago

Very interesting project, I am looking forward to trying this out! Best of luck!

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timoshey (59) · 7 years ago

Thank you, we will appreciate that.

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jakadvornik (25) · 7 years ago

Hi, I am new to the Steemit.
I would love it if you would check my first post on why the Crypto market is in RED.
https://steemit.com/introduceyourself/@jakadvornik/introducing-myself-why-is-the-crypto-market-in-red

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epearson (47) · 7 years ago

Very cool. I hope a lot of people start publishing books here.

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froguitar (25) · 7 years ago

Good motivation to start writing your own book. Thanks.

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carlatortoza (30) · 7 years ago

I want to write a book and today I was thinking the possibilities of post the content here, now thanks to your project I can do it. Steem and its possibilities surprise me every day

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marcozthomas (25) · 7 years ago

I was thinking of posting something ,chapter by chapter myself, really glad to have found this.

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fulltimemummy (31) · 7 years ago

Awesome! Thank you

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life.student (58) · 7 years ago

fantastic news!

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leyefash (25) · 7 years ago

This platform will create a huge opportunity for the public to publish their works. We are in the age of information overload and misinformation; is it possible for you to include in your platform a process to categorize and screen content to prevent misinformation?

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timoshey (59) · 7 years ago

We have the categories section by the side of the web page that sorts out publications.

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postpromoter (63) · 7 years ago

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daydreams4rock (63) · 7 years ago

good project -I have an interest in publishing a book and will consider using this method - am not upvoting and following you in support -rock on -David

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cryptotax (59) · 7 years ago (edited)

This is great I've already written an educational tax e-book, but the way I go about it is clunky because I usually re post table of contents every couple months. Dbooks is something I would possibly use when it is ready. Thank you!

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feekayo (58) · 7 years ago

We have an MVP available on https://www.dbooks.org. You should check it out. And while we don't yet have most steemit features, I think we have more than enough to get you started

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etaletai (36) · 7 years ago

Thanks so much!! I'm really excited for this, as I can't easily even keep a reply under three paragraphs.

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robertsrister (33) · 7 years ago

I've been writing professionally for about 30 years. I managed to get a few books to sell hundreds of thousands of print copies--but the industry is incredibly tough these days. Steemit seems to offer what we never really mastered in the print world, following first, printing later.

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kartikohri1712 (37) · 7 years ago (edited)

Hi @timoshey & @feekayo, Great Initiative. But I would like to get an insight on revenue model. On steem blockchain, rewards are paid out after 7 days of a post but some books may take longer even to complete? Moreover books will gain exposure over time. People who read or upvote the post beyond 7 days period won't affect the rewards. Will the rewards be on upvote basis as all other posts or would more read books be given incentive?

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feekayo (58) · 7 years ago

Of course the content would still be available for free on steemit but would lack the organization and ease of read we offer

We would really love to have you on our discord group, so we can discuss new features at length

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kartikohri1712 (37) · 7 years ago

Joined it. Can I contribute in writing code for DBooks?

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feekayo (58) · 7 years ago

Do you do AngularJS or NodeJS

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idrisalban (20) · 7 years ago

Very interesting friends

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mometek (42) · 7 years ago

Need "Science Fiction"

I signed up. This is a great idea!

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fangcan888 (37) · 7 years ago

Multi-channel steemit, he will always be strong and brilliant.

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faisal1650 (53) · 7 years ago

What a great way to spread steemit. Liked it very much. Hope good books will come

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aqeelshehzad (49) · 7 years ago

Fascinating undertaking. Has as of now a working MVP(minimum feasible item) a debt of gratitude is in order for making this that can draw in an ever increasing number of individuals to think about blockchain. That is a smart thought!

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azmi01 (35) · 7 years ago

Thank you for the information@timoshey

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